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Don: Thanks very much for those sites. I couldn't reach the first one, but found the second fascinating (Noah and Hindu mythology) and also remarkably well written (considering th…
25 Nov 2002, 01:40
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From Crowley. And please honor his "don't tell," those of you connected with the press etc.: My news is that the fourht volume of Aegypt will be done by year's end. It has a titl…
18 Nov 2002, 02:15
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It is indeed Edgar in disguise. Plays so different as to seem by different authors. -alga…
15 Nov 2002, 02:24
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Jerry F. responded to Dan'l and Nutria's debate: (This is so parenthetical that I'm putting it in parens, but two more that many know something about (there are hundreds of small …
05 Nov 2002, 01:50
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She does. With some surprise that she never noticed it before. BTW, the Gnostic primer, the easiest and most available text, spelling out all the surviving myths, remains THE GNOS…
02 Nov 2002, 01:34
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Not answering anyone completely because it's just too hard to do multiple answers on the Digest now (hi, Ranjit!) but Wombat asked why Middle Eastern mythology rather than Hellenic…
24 Oct 2002, 00:25
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I'm a PEN member, and PEN-America has a big project going on--you're a well-read bunch and might have some bright ideas. You can email me with suggestions and I hope you will. "PE…
23 Oct 2002, 20:24
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Roy asks: Oh, nothing really: For I will consider my cat Jeoffry For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him... Christopher Smart -alga…
17 Oct 2002, 01:20
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Mused mantis: [snip] But aren't you forgetting that the TW desired love too, as well as polish--his first desire was a heart, to love but also to be loved. And he became Emperor …
16 Oct 2002, 01:55
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Geller" <dclxvi at dclxvi.best.vwh.net> quoting Rostrum:: No, the graphics are fun there, but the information is flip and sophomoric; for in…
12 Oct 2002, 01:24
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From Matthew: And a persistant one: Adam lay ybounden, Bounden in a bond, [snip] A perfectly lovely old lay. I was lucky enough to hear this sung as a round once by the Pr…
11 Oct 2002, 02:42
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Great post, Roy. I will chew it over. -alga…
06 Oct 2002, 00:58
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Crush cried: I don't think it's tight. But consider an author's thinking: A Tin Soldier (and I think he *was* thinking of Andersen's tin soldier too, thank you, mantis). What abou…
27 Sep 2002, 02:20
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Maybe a little background on the Tin Woodman, for those who are familiar mainly with the movie or the first book only. We know that Wolfe knows the Baum books well, through "Eyefla…
26 Sep 2002, 02:36
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From: "Jerry Friedman" reponding to Blatttid: I agree. It is certainly an original situation, and one that could only occur in SF. Both were unaware of it. Wolfe surely meant it t…
17 Sep 2002, 03:35
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Rostrum rote: Hmm. Considering when he wrote (he died in 1966), I've always thought that Smith had a far better grasp of computers than any of his contemporaries. Rod McBan's Nors…
11 Sep 2002, 01:47
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Surprise today! Opened Vanity Fair, a glossy US mag usually obsessed with celebs and scandals (usually rather well done, I must say), to find, of all things, a piece on Philip Pull…
08 Sep 2002, 03:25
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Whoops, I meant that Ossipago was the hierodulean chem! -alga…
07 Sep 2002, 01:26
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In this discussion, which is pretty interesting (I admit to having cruised past most everything here lately, but this arrested me), I am surprised that no one has yet brought up Si…
07 Sep 2002, 01:20
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Please, please, newbies, turn off your "rich text" or html option when you reply to an urth message. Ranjit's program can't support it. If there were only one of you, I, or someone…
04 Sep 2002, 20:08
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Blattid bleated: That feels exactly right. Lucius Shepard would not have been at a DragonCon, nor would Wolfe, nor Sterling, nor is there a banquet. (I, on the other hand, did go …
03 Sep 2002, 20:35
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From: rostrum No, I'm almost certain that this was before his novel was published, though it was in the works, and Sterling would have known of it. I can't remember the name of t…
03 Sep 2002, 02:39
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Good call, Nick. Some major convention (WorldCon, I guess) was held in, I think, Atlanta in the 80s and Newt, for reasons that I think had to do with Bruce Sterling, was the banque…
02 Sep 2002, 01:03
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hartshorn, Yes, they (discussions, not discussers, necessarily--it remains to be seen) are this loony. Help us back to some semblance of sanity. -alga…
01 Sep 2002, 03:23
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Crush, have you met Robert Borski? You're both gifted with imagination plus, and should have much to discuss. -alga…
27 Aug 2002, 18:13
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----- Original Message ----- A much better novel, set at about the same time, same station, is -Morality Play- by Barry Unsworth. Recommended to this group. -alga…
27 Aug 2002, 01:09
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What an interesting and original idea! Now that you bring it up, it seems very posssible, given Thais's desrciption. Here, from the Penguin Dictionary of Saints is some info about…
28 Jul 2002, 01:03
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28 Jul 2002, 00:42
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A thoughtful answer to a rather dashed-off statement. Alga wrote of the Blattid repriled: which I find simply implausible.) Actually, I agree; I was using "satirical" carelessl…
17 Jul 2002, 14:37
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A thought to add to my own last post: there is a logical explanation, or at least a novelist's explanation, for the culturally, racially and sexually segregated cities (or enclaves…
16 Jul 2002, 15:36
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Logically, this is ridiculous. Here in New York, when Wombat, Ranjit and I take the subway (not all together, or not yet), when we look up and down the car we see profiles that cou…
16 Jul 2002, 06:35
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I didn't learn anything from him, though he may have learned something from me. We were discussing a writer, Dale Peck. Love Jon Carroll. Please let us know what you learned fro…
08 Jul 2002, 13:27
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Oops, that wasn't the starting point (Iy; been going on even onger than I thought). This was: http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020701&s=peck070102…
06 Jul 2002, 18:26
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OK, it's off the wall.But because of this review http://www.tnr.com/040201/2peck040201.html I have been in engaged in a lengthy (amazingly lengthy, actually, almost like here) disc…
06 Jul 2002, 16:06
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Whoops, I meant LS in my above post! -alga…
05 Jul 2002, 11:32
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For those of us who get the Digest, this was an interesting one because Tony Ellis was also speculatiing why Victor hated Roy Trenchard so much. And of course #5 hates his father t…
05 Jul 2002, 11:18
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----- Original Message ----- I suppose that"s Neil Armstrong the school is named after, just as he shows up in Ultan's library. -alga…
04 Jul 2002, 11:31
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No one has brought up the fact that Vodalus etc. have Roman/Latin names. Which is what Juterna has too; it may indicate whose side you're on in a very simple way (Romans v. Christi…
21 Jun 2002, 02:00
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From Jeff Wilon: From me: From him: Juturna is our sole adult acquaintance with this group of the Other People and I think she has to count for something representative in a nov…
20 Jun 2002, 01:31
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Definitely don't agree with this--i.e. agree with RB. Quite correct, and see my earlier comments on undines and Rhinemaidens. That's because, as a mythological creature, she has …
18 Jun 2002, 01:36
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Idle Idas question: Does she ever give her real name? It ought to be a water-nymph's name, like Jurturna (spririt of Lake Diuturna). Idas is a man's name; he was one of a princely…
17 Jun 2002, 17:01
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From newbie Andrew: First, welcome, and prepare to be attacked at once! (Or slimed, heh heh.) They are *not* the main villains of the Briah universe. -They are basically shaped …
17 Jun 2002, 03:22
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Thank you very much, Crush, for posting these-- right on the button. One can fossick around among these odd old writings, but I bet GW has too. Useful to have in the archive. alga…
11 Jun 2002, 19:42
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[Huge snip] But Ratty, way back when, someone, maybe you, silenced me on some rant by pointing out that Cutthroat is loved wherever he goes. By everyone. Even when he is menaced u…
01 Jun 2002, 04:56
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----- Original Message ----- I would like to know this too. I am among the minority who found URTH absolutely necessary, and who have never been able to understand the hostility o…
28 May 2002, 01:19
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[snip, sorry, but you can look it up] That wasn't my list and the current format of the Urth list makes it too difficult to go back to find who it was. I insisted on the paradigm …
25 May 2002, 00:08
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No, Adam, I don't think Blue and Green are Hell or Purgatory. I think Wolfe contemplated a "what if?" pair of worlds where mythological spirits and personages that Catholics are st…
23 May 2002, 21:38
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From hartshorn: (a lot snipped) Surely, surely, I do. And I'm even offended at the attempt to drag the Jews into this. Wolfe, I think, would hit the ceiling at such a ham(heh!)fi…
23 May 2002, 00:36
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Adam replied: Many, many thanks. But without having read it yet, I should like to correct, gently, one thing. Sympathetic Death figures were very much a part of Victorian sentimen…
21 May 2002, 12:58
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You mustn't forget that the inhumi are demons, quite explicitly. This is on my mind because I've just been reading a book called -Demon Lovers- about the accusations of sex with de…
21 May 2002, 09:12
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